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Muguette
M. Goufrani
Other
ATA Jubilee
Profiles
Africa
Travel Magazine
Associate Editor
 Muguette
Goufrani's background as an airline agent,
tour guide and travel agency professional
has been the key to her media success,
resulting in an ATA Travel Industry
Founders Award in Cape Town, South Africa
two years ago. As a "career globetrotter,"
Muguette's articles for Air Highways and
Africa Travel Magazine have an authentic,
multicultural flavor, thanks to
painstaking research and the confidence of
having lived the experience (walked the
walk).
 Her
career positions have included Royal Air
Maroc, AOL
Airlines,
Air Afrique, Matson Lines, Palm Springs
Resorts, Club Med, Tahiti Tours and Noumea
Tours. Upon graduating from College du
Paris, she launched her career in
Casablanca,
Morocco,
where the Goufrani family has operated a
tour company for
generations.
Award
in Africa:
A
dual citizen (France -
Canada)
and member of Vancouver, BC, Canada's
Francophone
Community,
Muguette prompted the decision to make our
travel magazines bilingual, extending
their worldwide reach and influence Aside
from our own publications and web sites,
Muguette has been featured extensively on
African television, radio and print media,
both English and French. Her first
assignment was the 1996 ATA Ecotourism
Symposium in Marrakech, Morocco. This was
followed by a National Geographic -
American Airlines sponsored project in
Haiti, plus ATA Congresses in Benin,
Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia and South
Africa. Her most recent extended trips to
Africa, were Congresses and overland land
tours of Cameroon (December 2001) and
Guinea (May 2002). Muguette returns to
Africa in December 2002, for an ATA event
in Fez, Morocco, following a Cross Canada
Road Show Tour and a Conference in
Atlantic
City,
New Jersey. Next year's African agenda
includes events in Zambia and Tanzania.
Travel Agents wishing to join her are
invited to e-mail Africa@dowco.com
 The
World Scene: Muguette's travels have
included Europe, the Americas, Vietnam,
Laos, Cambodia, China, Japan, Russia,
Australia the Caribbean, and most of
Europe. Active with the Africa
Travel Association
and
PATA, she focuses her efforts on tourism
to and from the world's Francophone
community. Muguette has lived and worked
in
seven African countries - Morocco,
Algeria, Gabon, Cote d'Ivoire,
Senegal,
Madagascar and Seychelles. She has also
worked in Guadeloupe, Tahiti, New
Caledonia, Cambodia, India, France,
Canada, Alaska, California, New York and
Nevada. Other travels have included
Western Europe, South America, Vietnam,
Laos, Cambodia, Japan, Russia, Greece and
Australia
Association
Involvement: Active with (ATA) Africa
Travel Association and (PATA) Pacific Asia
Tourist Association, Muguette provides
translations for all media. A keen
observer of current affairs, she is
anxious to receive and pass on news of
trade and tourism developments and events
in any part of the world. E-mail
airhwy@dowco.com
Photos:
(a) Muguette at historic site in Franc (b)
Muguette in typical Beninese hat (b)
Muguette with chidren in Tanzania (c) With
Maasai tribesmen in Kenya
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